Research activity at the University of Lincoln
Our Symposium “AA” Frontiers in Optical Bio-Imaging and Microscopy kicks off tomorrow and runs for the whole week as one of the parallel conference sessions.
Researchers from the Universities of Lincoln and Liverpool have been arriving and battling jet lag over the weekend.
Laurence Duchesne will be kicking off proceedings tomorrow afternoon with
Heparan Sulphate Determines the Modes of Diffusion of Fibroplast Growth Factor 2 Within the Pericellular Matrix
In the Photothermal Microscopy session
There are currently 4 major Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery -related research project running in the School of Engineering:
We held the annual major project review on Wed 22nd June, attended by project collaborators and co-ordinators from Siemens, and all our Siemens related research staff and associated academics.
We are hoping to announce further collaborative projects to add to this portfolio in the near future
The Project review was led by Dr Jill Stewart, who has recently been announced as Acting Head of Engineering, following Prof Stewart’s promotion to PVC Research
Currently waiting to board an A380 to fly out to Singapore via Dubai. A group of us are heading out as invited speakers for the
International Conference on Materials for Advanced Materials, which kicks off at The Suntec Conference Centre in Singapore on Sunday.
Paul Stewart and Colin Dowding from the School of Engineering will be joining Prof DAVE Fernig from the University of Liverpool, and Dr Laurence Duchesne from INSERM At the Institut Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris.
Profs Stewart and Fernig will be delivering extended invited talks in the Frontiers in Optical Bio-imaging and Microscopy Symposium. Prof Stewart’s talk will cover the Bio:Eng interface which he is working on with Dave and Laurence.
The rotary electrical drive on the Lotus free-piston experimental engine has now been re-commissioned by an engineer from Control Techniques.
The rig is now ready to be transported from the ThinkTank to its new home in an engine test cell in the new building.
The engine is part of a long-term R&D programme into new engine technologies and combustion control techniques led by Prof Paul Stewart, in collaboration with Lotus Engineering in Norwich.
The programme is looking at advanced drive trains for Hybrid Electric vehicles.
The CT drive supplies the Emerson 15kW Permanent Magnet AC Motor (PMAC) which is coupled to the crankshaft and acts as a motor-generator to control piston trajectory when the linear free piston engine is tethered to the crankshaft.
Now that the Free-Piston engine is back at the ThinkTank, the electrical drive to the main crankshaft servo will be re-commissioned by Control Techniques Ltd.
The Engine has been away for a while having a new linear electrical motor-generator fitted, and is now ready for electrical re-comissioning before we move it into it’s test-cell in the new School of Engineering building.
The engine is unique, in that it allows piston trajectory control for experimentation on both conventional (with crankshaft) and free-piston (linear electrical machine, no crankshaft) operation.
After re-commissioning and installation in the new building, Prof Stewart will be continuing research into fundamental combustion, multi-fuel operation with variable compression ratios and free-piston operation in collaboration with Dr Jill Stewart, Reader in Thermofluids.
